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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and...
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The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest...
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My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and...
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The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict,...
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.
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Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth...
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased...
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A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Memory feeds imagination.